Tamar S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1083
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Tamar S., who was born in Berlin, Germany. She recounts her family's Dutch citizenship; spending summers in Amsterdam, where she met Anne Frank; being sent to boarding school in Holland while her parents moved to Paris in 1933; joining the Scouts; assisting Belgian refugees through the Scouts, after German invasion; moving to Moulins with her family; attending school in Lyon; her parents and younger siblings being forced to move to Grenoble; joining the Jewish scouts which rescued Jewish children; the family's arrest; leaving her three-year-old sister in hiding with a French couple; their release due to their Dutch citizenship; escaping across the Alps to Switzerland; rescue by Swiss shepherds; being taken to Champe?ry, then Geneva; attending school; returning to Paris after liberation; learning of her grandmother's death in Bergen-Belsen; working in a home for hidden Jewish children; and emigration to Palestine in 1947.

Extent and Medium

2 videocassettes

Conditions Governing Access

This testimony is open with permission.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • Frank, Anne, -- 1929-1945.
  • S., Tamar.

Corporate Bodies

  • Eclaireurs israélites de France.
  • Scouts de France.

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Women.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Child survivors.
  • Family.
  • Refugees, Jewish.
  • Jews -- Migrations.
  • Escapes.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.

Places

  • Grenoble (France)
  • Lyon (France)
  • Moulins (France)
  • Paris (France)
  • Berlin (Germany)
  • Germany.
  • Palestine.
  • Netherlands.
  • Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  • Champéry (Switzerland)
  • Geneva (Switzerland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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